Working with Children and Young People
Your Career Guide
This career guide is designed to help University of Portsmouth students and recent graduates explore job options, key employers, and entry routes related to working with children and young people.
Working with children and young people can be a challenging but rewarding career and the diversity of the sectors you could work in offers the opportunity to gain a wide range of experience.
Achieving a degree in childhood and youth studies, education or other humanity-based subjects can open up numerous opportunities across different sectors. Such degrees offer excellent foundations for careers working with children and young people in areas such as early years, youth and community work, education, health or social care. You could consider hands-on roles in schools and nurseries, outreach work in local communities, supporting families through social care, or even shaping policy and practice in education - the possibilities are exciting and varied.
This guide has been broken down into four main areas – early years, youth and community work, health and social care and education. If you are specifically interested in teaching, please refer to our Teaching career guide for more in- depth information.
Explore the Working with Children and Young People career guide
Getting started in your career with children and young people
Understand your options and take the first steps to beginning your career working with children and young people.
Gaining experience working with children and young people
Find out how to build your experience working with children and young people while you study.
Finding a job working with children and young people
Explore the different ways you can find employment after you graduate.
